Fortress Around Your Heart
- Fortress Around Your Heart
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Name = Fortress Around Your Heart
Artist = Sting
from Album = The Dream of the Blue Turtles
B-side = "Consider Me Gone" (live)
Released = October 1 1985
Format = 7", 12"
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:48
Label = A&M Records
Producer = Sting and Peter Smith
Chart position = * #8 Hot 100 (U.S.)
* #49 (U.K.)
Last single = "Love Is the Seventh Wave"
(1985)
This single = "Fortess Around Your Heart"
(1985)
Next single = "Russians"
(1985)
"Fortress Around Your Heart" is a Sting song from his 1985 album "The Dream of the Blue Turtles". The song was also released as a single, and reached #8 and #49 on the U.S. and U.K. singles charts, respectively.
Sting wrote the song in the studio in Barbados in 1985. A Branford Marsalis sax solo is the highlight of the song. [cite web|url=http://www.sting.com/discog/?v=a&a=1&id=20 |title=discography.albums |work=Sting.com |accessdate=2007-10-09] The inspiration for this song was the pain he felt from the failure of his first marriage. In a "Musician" magazine interview later that year, he said:
"Fortress" is about appeasement, about trying to bridge the gaps between individuals. The central image is a minefield that you've laid around this other person to try and protect them. Then you realise that you have to walk back through it. I think it's one of the best choruses I've ever written."
During one of Sting's first performances of the song in concert in Paris, his crew lowered a tiny fortress onto the stage in a parody of the similar Stonehenge scene from the film "This Is Spinal Tap".
A live version of the song, recorded in the Netherlands, was included on the U.S. release of the Fields of Gold compilation album.
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